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# Vaishnava Dharmashastra 18.42

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 18.42

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [18.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.18.42)

anupaghnan pitṛdravyaṃ śrameṇa yad upārjayet  
svayam īhitalabdhaṃ tan nākāmo dātum arhati //

> What a brother has acquired by, his own efforts, without using the patrimony, he must not give up (to his brothers or other co-heirs), unless by his own free will; for it was gained by his own exertion.  
> — Julius Jolly 1880, The Institutes of Vishnu

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## Translations (1)

- [The Institutes of Vishnu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu~en-jolly.18.42) — Julius Jolly 1880, English

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